William W. Mackall

William Whann Mackall (18 January 1817-12 August 1891) was a Confederate States Army Brigadier-General during the American Civil War.

Biography
William Whann Mackall was born in Cecil County, Maryland in 1817, and he graduated from West Point in 1837 before marrying the sister of Moxley Sorrel. He served as a US Army lieutenant during the Second Seminole War and as a major during the Mexican-American War, suffering an arm wound at the Battle of Chapultepec. In 1861, he resigned from the US Army and became a Confederate States Army lieutenant-colonel, serving on the staff of Albert Sidney Johnston before becoming a Brigadier-General on 6 March 1862. On 7 April 1862, he was captured at the Battle of Island Number Ten, and he served as chief of staff to Braxton Bragg from 17 April to 12 October 1863. From 26 January to 24 August 1864, he served as chief of staff of the Army of Tennessee under Joseph E. Johnston, and, from 23 March to 20 April 1865, he commanded Confederate forces in southern Georgia. He surrendered to the Union at Macon, and he became a farmer in Fairfax County, Virginia after the war, dying in 1891.